. >> senator kelly ayotte had ayotte had a confrontation at a town hall meeting with a relative of a victim of the massacre. jeff flake senator from arizona posted on his facebook page facebook page because of his gun control votes that his popularity is roughly the same level as pond. do these statements get the white house confidence that you may be able to go back and pass some kind of gun control legislation in the coming days, weeks or months? >> i think what we have seen is americans out there who you know engage on an issue and feel passionately about an issue and feel like it's the right thing to do, and they appreciate when the representatives disagree with them. and when i say them, and made 85% of the american people and the vast majority of the constituents of arizona or new hampshire virtually every state in the country. what the president made clear in the rose garden after the background checks vote went down is that americans who were disappointed by that action and by that failure of the senate to listen to the people they represent need to speak up because in the en